Thought maybe the party was at/during work...sheesh tortiesibling, no need to bite my head off. Mommee kitteh has parties during or after work, after all. nope, it was Friday night at a nice winery/restaurant

Anything to do with setting your alarm? With your sleep schedule? With your computer? With the LTPF? none of the above, except a small yesish to computer

watching Doctor Who or other shows relevant? on YouTube? downloaded on your computer? did you lose track of time? didn't lose track of time, just got delayed, but not by computer Were you watching a movie? no to rest

The computer being relevant was yesish because although it was not what delayed me from leaving, it did give me what turned out to be false information. The fact that I was delayed by about 15 minutes did not really matter in the end, as I got there a whole hour late.

Is it just that the traffic backed up and made you late? indeed, traffic was awful and made me late, and I learned that it would be bad from traffic.com, where it said there were 2 accidents on the freeway. However, I planned for the traffic that it told me about (my brilliant plan) so what went wrong? Ick, I hate traffic. Poor sibling. I hate it as well

:-( Did they make you have to get off at the wrong exit? Or did you have to merge in a way you didn't want, like that time the bus forced you onto the freeway and we had to drive the wrong way for forever and just barely made it to our appointment on time?

:-( Did they make you have to get off at the wrong exit? no, FA Or did you have to merge in a way you didn't want, like that time the bus forced you onto the freeway and we had to drive the wrong way for forever and just barely made it to our appointment on time? nope, nowhere to merge

why I is made an FA, sibling? :-( were you not on the freeway? bingo, I was not on the freeway because that was where traffic.com said the accident was, and my brilliant idea was to take side streets to avoid it. Now, what went wrong?

you turned the wrong way on the streets? silly sibling... not this time, I had my GPS so I was never lost

Got caught on one-way streets that went the wrong way, maybe? no, it was a two way street, although it was very hard to turn around so I didn't, bad idea where you wanted to turn and couldn't? see above

Did you not think there would be traffic on the side streets? indeed, I did not, so why was there? hint: the side street was located on the other side of a chain link fence from the freeway But the traffic delayed you enough to be late? it delayed me greatly, in fact, if I had taken the freeway it would have been faster. Although I would probably have still been a little late.

was there an even worse accident on the side streets tortiesibling??? yes!

Could you see the accident from the side street? since it was on the side street, yes Did the side street get slowed down by rubbernecking? no, it was slowed down because it blocked the whole lane going in the other direction Did debris from the accident end up on the side street? yes

Did a car on the freeway swerve into the fence, causing a piece of the fencing to swing out like a gate and block a lane of the side street? nope, but that would have sucked

I think now is the time for...

*****SPOILER*****

Before the party I kept checking the traffic and how long it would take to get there on traffic.com. I tried to leave early, but when I was a little late to leave (about 15 minutes) I had a brilliant idea to take the side street rather than the actual freeway for a small part of the trip in order to bypass the accident mentioned on the website. Unfortunately for me, the accident was on the street that I took rather than on the freeway itself. It blocked the oncoming lane of traffic meaning that a cop was alternating which lane got to pass by, and causing a major backup of all cars with people who had the same idea as me.